Button.



E. W. HABER.

BUTTON.

APPLICATION rum) FEB. 26. 1908.

912,843. Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

51411014 ion EUGENE W. HABER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

Application filed February 26, 1908. Serial No. 417,951.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE W. HAnnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at l Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of l Illinois, have invented new and useful Iml provements in Buttons, of which the iollowj ing is a specification.

This invention relates to buttons, and the I object of the invention is to provide a button for collars which may be used when the button hole of a shirt or shirt waist has become torn or when the shirt or shirt waist is I either too large or too small for the wearer. I

With these and other objects in view the invention resides in the novel construction of shirt buttons hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a button for collars constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a 0 Fig. 0

plan of the same. is a transverse sectional view of the same. l In the embodiment of my invention here l shown, I provide a pair of longitudinallyl curved plates 1 which are arranged in over- 1 lapping relation and are slid-able or adjustj able longitudinally with respect to each j other and are further provided with openings 6 which are so spaced as to cause them I to register with one another at various ad I justments of the plates. Each of the said plates is provided at its outer side and near j its outer end with an inwardly extending hook 4,-that is to say,the said hooks i of the said plate extend toward each other. The plates or members 1 are connected. together by a yoke member 8 which passes around them and is provided on its outer side with a centrally disposed outwardly projecting shank 9 which has a button head 10. A resilient latch member 11 is attached at one end to the shank 9 and is provided with an offset or hook 12 at its outer end which is adapted to engage with the openings 6 of the plates or members 1 and hence to secure said plates or members together at any desired adjustment and also secure the central button 011 said plates.

In the use of my improved button one of the hooks 4 is inserted upon one edge of a collar band and the other hook 4 is inserted in the opposite end, thus bringing the button in the middle of the shirt or shirt waist and in position to receive the collar.

It will be observed that I have provided a simple, cheap and effective device for securing collars upon shirts in which the collar band is either too short or too long to lit the wearer or in which the button holes have become torn or enlarged to such an extent as to unsuit them for the reception of an ordinary collar button.

Having thus fully described the invention what is claimed as new is:

1. A device for the purpose set forth com prising a pair of curved plates, a button slidably mounted upon the plates, means for securing the button upon the plates, hooks upon the outer faces of the plates, and means for retaining the plates in connection with each other.

2. A collar button having a pair of plates provided with perforations, hooks upon each of the plates, a yoke upon the plates, a shank having a button upon the yoke, a resilient hook upon the shank, an oliset on the hook adapted to engage the perforations of the plates.

In testimony whereof I my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE HABER. lYitnesses:

JAMES E. SMITH, ARTHUR M. CARLSON. 

